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Author : W. Brian Arthur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 198?
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:81290014
Author : Advisory Committee on Technology and Society
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1988-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309037860
Cities and Their Vital Systems asks basic questions about the longevity, utility, and nature of urban infrastructures; analyzes how they grow, interact, and change; and asks how, when, and at what cost they should be replaced. Among the topics discussed are problems arising from increasing air travel and airport congestion; the adequacy of water supplies and waste treatment; the impact of new technologies on construction; urban real estate values; and the field of "telematics," the combination of computers and telecommunications that makes money machines and national newspapers possible.
Author : W. Brian Arthur
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472022407
Pioneering work on an important new approach to economics.
Author : Lars Magnusson,Jan Ottosson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781848449268
The notion and interpretation of path dependence have been discussed and utilized in various social sciences during the last two decades. This innovative book provides significant new insights onto how the different applications of path dependence have developed and evolved. The authors suggest that there has been a definite evolution from applications of path dependence in the history of technology towards other fields of social science. They also discuss the various definitions of path dependence (strong or weak) and explore the potential applications of path dependence in new areas such as political economy and economic geography. With new perspectives on how the debate surrounding path dependence has evolved, this book will strongly appeal to postgraduate students and scholars of economic history, economic geography, political science and business studies.
Author : Raghu Garud,Peter Karnoe
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135706319
The editors, aware of the recent work in evolutionary theory and the science of chaos and complexity, challenge the sometimes deterministic flavor of this subject. They are interested in uncovering the place of agency in these theories that take history so seriously. In the end, they are as interested in path creation and destruction as they are in path dependence. This book is compiled of both theoretical and empirical writings. It shows relatively well-known industries, such as the automobile, biotechnology, and semi-conductor industries in a new light. It also invites the reader to learn more about medical practices, wind power, lasers, and synthesizers. Primarily written for academicians, researchers, and Ph.D. students in fields related to technology management, this book is research-oriented and will appeal to all managers.
Author : Sebastian Haumann,Martin Knoll,Detlev Mares
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9783839443750
In history, cities and nature are often treated as two separate fields of research. »Concepts of Urban-Environmental History« aims to bridge this gap. The contributions to this volume survey major concepts and key issues which have shaped recent debates in the field. They address unresolved questions and future challenges. As a handbook, the collection offers a comprehensive overview for researchers and students, both from a historical and an interdisciplinary background.
Author : Stan J.. Liebowitz,Stephen Margolis
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Economics
ISBN : 1782545549
Since their first emergence in the work of Paul David thirty years ago, the dual issues of Path Dependence and Lock-In have become critically important subjects in the fields of economics, sociology, and business strategy. Theoretical and public policy debates on these issues have arisen, addressing whether markets consistently choose the best products. This collection presents each side of the debate, bringing together key publications that initiated this literature with the later works that criticize or defend many of the early claims. Both the theoretical and empirical foundations of Path Dependence and Lock-In are examined along with the role of network effects. An original introduction by the editors is included to situate each article in its wider context.
Author : Mohammad-Reza Namazi-Rad,Lin Padgham,Pascal Perez,Kai Nagel,Ana Bazzan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319519579
This book constitutes revised, selected, and invited papers from the First International Workshop on Agent Based Modelling of Urban Systems, ABMUS 2016, held in conjunction with AAMAS 2016 in Singapore in May 2016. The 11 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: urban systems modeling; traffic simulation in urban modeling; and applications.
Author : Ron A. Boschma,Ron L. Martin
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847204912
This wide-ranging handbook studies and defines the paradigm of evolutionary economic geography. The distinguished contributors highlight the key conceptual, theoretical and empirical advances, and present a clear statement of their aims, objectives and methods.
Author : Joel Dearden,Alan Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317698531
The task of modelling the evolution of cities – the dynamics – is one of the major challenges of the social sciences. This book presents mathematical and computer models of urban and regional dynamics and shows how advances in computer visualisation provide new insights. Models of non-linear systems in general have three characteristics: multiple equilibria, ‘path dependence’ over time and phase transitions – that is, abrupt change at critical parameter values. These phenomena all exhibit themselves in reality, and it is an ongoing task to match model-based analysis with real phenomena. There are three key features of cities and regions to be represented in models: activities at a location – residence, health, education, work and shopping; flows between locations – spatial interaction; and the structures that carry these activities – buildings, transport and communications networks. Spatial interaction and many elements of activities’ location can be modelled by statistical averaging procedures, which are related to Boltzmann’s methods in statistical mechanics. This is while the evolution of structure can be represented in equations that connect to the Lotka-Volterra equations in ecology. Within this broad framework, alternative approaches can be brought to bear. This book uses entropy-maximising versions of spatial interaction models. The authors explore the dynamics in more detail, using advanced visualisation techniques. These ideas have wide potential uses, and the book illustrates this with applications in history and archaeology.
Author : Philip W. Anderson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780429972478
This book proceeds from a meeting at the Santa Fe Institute where economists and physical and biological scientists came together to discuss a conceptual framework incorporating a more appropriate mathematics with a greatly strengthened capacity to deal simultaneously with multiple variables, nonlinearity, incomplete information and dynamical processes.
Author : Denise Pumain,Romain Reuillon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319464978
This monograph presents urban simulation methods that help in better understanding urban dynamics. Over historical times, cities have progressively absorbed a larger part of human population and will concentrate three quarters of humankind before the end of the century. This “urban transition” that has totally transformed the way we inhabit the planet is globally understood in its socio-economic rationales but is less frequently questioned as a spatio-temporal process. However, the cities, because they are intrinsically linked in a game of competition for resources and development, self organize in “systems of cities” where their future becomes more and more interdependent. The high frequency and intensity of interactions between cities explain that urban systems all over the world exhibit large similarities in their hierarchical and functional structure and rather regular dynamics. They are complex systems whose emergence, structure and further evolution are widely governed by the multiple kinds of interaction that link the various actors and institutions investing in cities their efforts, capital, knowledge and intelligence. Simulation models that reconstruct this dynamics may help in better understanding it and exploring future plausible evolutions of urban systems. This would provide better insight about how societies can manage the ecological transition at local, regional and global scales. The author has developed a series of instruments that greatly improve the techniques of validation for such models of social sciences that can be submitted to many applications in a variety of geographical situations. Examples are given for several BRICS countries, Europe and United States. The target audience primarily comprises research experts in the field of urban dynamics, but the book may also be beneficial for graduate students.
Author : Philip Cooke,Bjørn Asheim,Ron Boschma,Ron Martin,Dafna Schwartz,Franz T_dtling
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857931504
Today, economic growth is widely understood to be conditioned by productivity increases which are, in turn, profoundly affected by innovation. This volume explores these key relationships between innovation and growth, bringing together experts from both fields to compile a unique Handbook. The Handbook considers innovation from fresh perspectives, encompassing topics such as services innovation, inward investment and innovation, creative industry innovation and green innovation. It is divided into seven sections, dealing with regional innovation and growth theory, dynamics, evolution, agglomeration, innovation 'worlds', innovation system institutions, and innovation governance and policy. This definitive compendium on regional innovation and growth will undoubtedly appeal to teachers, students, researchers and practitioners of innovation and growth dynamics worldwide.
Author : J. Barkley Rosser
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781441988287
Drawing on the middle chapters from the first edition of J. Barkley Rosser's seminal work, From Catastrophe to Chaos, this book presents an unusual perspective on economics and economic analysis. Current economic theory largely depends upon assuming that the world is fundamentally continuous. However, an increasing amount of economic research has been done using approaches that allow for discontinuities such as catastrophe theory, chaos theory, synergetics, and fractal geometry. The spread of such approaches across a variety of disciplines of thought has constituted a virtual intellectual revolution in recent years. This book reviews the applications of these approaches in various subdisciplines of economics and draws upon past economic thinkers to develop an integrated view of economics as a whole from the perspective of inherent discontinuity.
Author : Pallagst, Karina,Bontje, Marco,Cunningham Sabot, Emmanuèle,Fleschurz, René
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839107047
Compelling and engaging, this Handbook on Shrinking Cities addresses the fundamentals of shrinkage, exploring its causal factors, the ways in which planning strategies and policies are steered, and innovative solutions for revitalising shrinking cities. Chapters cover topics of governance, ‘greening’ and ‘right-sizing’, and regrowth, laying the relevant groundwork for the Handbook’s proposals for dealing with shrinkage in the age of COVID-19 and beyond.